It can definitely be self-taught! A promising path would be to self-teach as much as possible and then apply for an MS program in bioinformatics or something s

It can definitely be self-taught! A promising path would be to self-teach as much as possible and then apply for an MS program in bioinformatics or something similar. Apart from the usual advice for teaching yourself programming, you can practice bioinformatic-specific skills at the wonderful Rosalind Project [0]. [0] http://rosalind.info/about/ http://rosalind.info/about/